August 28th in History
1789: William Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
1963: Over 200,000 people march through Washington in a civil rights demonstration led by Rv. Martin Luther King
1990: Kuwait declared the 19th province of Iraq, by Saddam Hussein


August 28th birthdays
1828: Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian author of 'War and Peace'

August 29th in History
1842: Treay Of Nanking, ceeding Hong Kong to Britain
1885: Gottlieb Daimler patents the first motor cycle
1991: The Soviet Communist Party was formally suspended as leader of USSR


August 29th birthdays
1915: Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress
1920: Charlie Parker, Legendary American Jazz musician
1923: Lord Richard Attenborough, British actor and Director
1938: Elliot Gould, American actor

August 30th in History
1900: Outbreak of bubonic plague in Glasgow, UK
1981: In Iran, the President and Prime Minister are killed by a bomb
1983: Guy Bluford becomes the first black American in space


August 30th birthdays
1797: Mary Shelley, English novelist and creator of 'Frankenstein'
1908: Fred MacMurray, American actor

August 31st in History
1888: First 'Jack the Ripper' victim discovered in Buck's Row, London


August 31st birthdays
1928: James Coburn, American film actor
1945: Van Morrison, American songwriter
1955: Ed Moses, American track athlete

September 1st in History
1920: Lebanon created by France, Beirut becoming the capital
1933: H.G Wells publishes  'The Shape of the Things to Come'
1974: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird fighter establishes a new record by flying the Atlantic in under 2 hours
1979: Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to flyby the planet Saturn
1985: After 73 years the wreck of the 'Titanic' is found by Dr Robert Ballard


September 1st birthdays
1875: Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist
1957: Gloria Estefan, Cuban born Pop singer

September 2nd in History
1666: A fire in a bakery in Pudding Lane, spread to engulf 13,000 buildings; 'The Great Fire of London'
1945: On board the aircraft carrier 'Missouri', in Tokyo Bay, General Douglas MacArthur accepts the Japanese surrender


September 2nd birthdays
1925: Russ Conway, Popular pianist of the 50's
1952: Jimmy Connors, American tennis player

September 3rd in History
1783: The American 'War of Independence' comes to an end, when Britain signs a treaty in Paris
1939: Britain and France declare war on Germany, starting World War 2
1967: Sweden changes to driving on the on the right side of the road, in common with most of Europe
1976: The US spacecraft Viking 2 successfully lands on Mars


September 3rd birthdays
1913: Alan Ladd, American film actor
1940: Pauline Collins, British actress

September 4th in History
1934: At Nuremberg over 750,000 supporters attend the Nazi Party conference
1940: The 'Battle of Britain' begins, after Hitler threatens to raze British cities to the ground because British bombers attacked Munich


September 4th birthdays
1824: Anton Bruckner, Austrian composer
1892: Darius Milhaud, French composer and pianist
1934: Sir Nicholas Jackson, Composer

September 5th in History
1905: The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ends
1972: Israeli athletes held hostage by Arab guerrillas at the Munich Olympics
1975: US President Gerald Ford escapes assassination attempt in Sacramento
1991: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), wound up by the Congress of Peoples Deputies


September 5th birthdays
1831: Victorien Sardou, French playwright; author of 'La Tosca'
1847: Jesse James, American outlaw of the Wild West
1902: Daryl F. Zanuck, American film producer
1942: Raquel Welch, American film actress

September 6th in History
1666: The Great Fire of London is finally put out after four days
1941: German jewish citizens forced to wear yellow stars of David on their clothes
1942: German advance into the USSR halted at Stalingrad
1965: India invades West Pakistan
1987: Kurdish leaders appeal to the UN for protection from Iraqi attacks


September 6th birthdays
1757: Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier
1766: John Dalton, British chemist
1860: Jane Addams, American sociologist
1892: Edward Appleton, English physicist